I m not going to write much on my life in this post, I m going to write about Tea Break here.

For me the project Tea Break started when Asim Imtiaz and me used to sit only rooms apart and me and Zair sat inches apart in Creative Chaos. Asim got me into this project since he had seen me working on freelance projects that had turned out beautiful. Anyways the moment Asim told me about the idea, I knew I was going to be a part of it, but I never got to make the design of the first version since I was busy with some stuff, and Zair managed to bring the first design online.

The second design we pushed online, which is still online as I write this post, was made by me, I did the design and most of the front end code, then Asim had all the development fronts covered, Zair helped me a tiny bit with the CSS, and Ammar was the mastermind when it came to market our little baby that was Teabreak.

There was a launch party held when we pushed this major update on the website, and I got to meet some really awesome people that includes Madam Jehan Ara, Ramla Akhter, Munir Usman, Imad Qamar and some I knew from before like Dr. Awab Alvi (who I believe is more blogger than a doc ).

We had many updates to follow after that and we covered many blogging events after that, and the response had mostly been awesome, except some tid bits. When ever I got to speak about Tea Break I did so and people got excited when I told them that I designed that website.

Later after quite some time had passed, we thought we needed to upgrade it a bit, and we starting taking feedback from users and also started building up a database of our ideas and new requirements. During this time, I flew to Dubai, where I had no access to a personal computer, only my office iMac, I obviously wasn’t allowed any work on that, so Tea Break suffered some development time on that, but it wasn’t long till I realised Dubai wasn’t the place for me, so I flew back when I had an offer from this another company ‘Xuqa‘, and the thought that it’s a game development company made it even better, so any how, I flew back to Pakistan, but even then due to my work hours I still wasn’t able to work on Tea Break, then the company decided that all it’s employees are going to be moved to Singapore, which is obviously super nice , so we moved here and again, lack of time followed me, but any how, I found a week end and finally did a design. It looks good to me, but sadly due to the amount of work I already have, I will not be working on Tea Break as of now.

Even though it’s been an awesome experience, I m going to go off the Tea Break experience, since I believe my work (both, paid and for Tea Break) was being effected, I could concentrate on only one thing at a time, and I chose money ( ) , no I m quitting Tea Break at least for a while due to the amount of work I have here at Xuqa (now Game Ventures), also since I couldn’t dedicate any time to Tea Break, I didn’t want it to suffer any more because of me. I m sure the rest of the Tea Break team will find an awesome designer to fit into place. I might join Tea Break at a later stage, but for now I m not working on it, I need to focus on my office work first.

It has been an awesome journey with you guys (Asim, Ammar, Asadullah, Zair), I wish you all the best for the future of Tea Break and it’s child projects.

Tea Break is and will always be in my heart and mind, it’s one of the best things I have done

Tags: ammar, asadullah, asim, awab, awesome, break, deisng, designer, development, game ventures, imad, jehan, loose, main, munir, quit, ramla, tea, team, win, work, xuqa, Zair

I m writing this post a few days after by birthday, which I had on the 22nd of April, and why was is this a late post, because I was occupied by by quite some stuff.

The 22nd of April, even though was my birthday, it isn’t that much of a special day, it’s like the norm. I mean I grew a year older, one more year for being alive. Thank you everyone who called, emailed, messaged me a birthday wish.

I’ve also been occupied by the cricket game we’re building, and I m pretty sure it’s going to knock your socks off. I just got started with the animations part, I m hoping it gets interesting for me to develop and for you to play..

Recently when Adobe Flash CS4 launched, they added up some really good features to it, one such tool they added is called ‘the bone tool’, what does it do ? see here.

Also I had a word with my family lately, and I got to know that my mom’s friend’s parents passed away, please pray for them, may their souls rest in peace. Ameen.

Anyways, I m gonna cut this post short, it’s freakin 5:11 am here, I need to sleep a bit. Ciao.

Tags: 22nd April, adobe, birthday, cs4, death, flash, friends, fun, Happening, life, miss, normal, random, work

Before blogs hit the internet, most of our information sources were either the Newspaper websites, the Newspapers itself, the Television or the Radio, but soon after the idea of blogging clicked, we could find blogs on almost everything, and information was widespread, but it wasn’t long before some one came up with the idea of Micro-Blogging, this some one was ‘Biz-stone‘, their free service Twitter took the idea of blogging further while keeping it short and sweet.

For some reason, the human kind has always found ways to abuse the very things they can benefit from, in this case, let me put it straight, we found this pretty neat service being misused by chatter of what a person does in every second of their lives. Sure if you do it once in a while, or you’re posting about important events, happenings, or some thing of importance it makes sense, but twitter updates like ‘OK so I m going to the toilet’ really don’t help any cause, and surprisingly people with such updates have a long list of followers too. I have a decent amount of followers on my twitter account, but I respect that and don’t quite post how every second of my day goes on, only important updates, some of my blog posts, some important happenings, or some thing out of the ordinary.

I m not against anyone’s posting of their second to second life online, but I think it’s a misuse of bandwidth, which could’ve been put to much better or fun uses.

I thank the people who bought us Twitter, and urge people to make proper use of it.

Tags: abuse, misuse, status, tweet, twitter, twuack, updates, use

Alot of people know that I haven’t been well medically, that is my health isn’t at it’s best right now, so I m staying a little low, and with 25th December, I thought I’d relax alot at home, though the plan was to watch movies and stay up, it didn’t quite work out that way :S

Asim had come over and we had to watch movies with soup and pizza, instead we spent most of the night at the hospital.. My dad developed some sort of very harsh muscle pain around the ribbs, the pain grew way too much and had to be taken to the hospital immediately, and thats what we did !

Dad is much better now, and there’s a little progress on my Bell’s Palsy thing too.

Anyways, when we were back from the hospital, we were a little exhausted, but still Asim insisted that we watch Transporter 3, we did put it on, but started feeling so sleepy so soon, that we had to snooze instead of watching the movie.

Now I got to sleep a little, so I can get to work on time. Oh and btw, Beleated Happy Birthday to Muhammad Ali Jinnah (25th, December), and Belated X-Mas.

Tags: crap, dad, health, jinnah, movie, prayers, transporter 3, wish, x-mas

It’s not the best days of my life right now. Stuck in the kind of odd days that wants me that I spend sometime with the people I love, and like. I m suffering from Bell’s Palsy, which is a paralysis of cranial nerve VII.

I m still going through this phase and would like to thank a few people who’re supporting me through the time, First obviously Allah who’s given me the power to stand this time, and then my parents and sister, I have awesome friends who’re alwasy here to help me, since I dont quite say thanks to the best of my friends I’d just name them.. Asim, Kamran, Fahad, Hassan, Raheel, Zair and all the people from my current work place (Ahmer, Saad, Immad, Balach, Salman)… From the people I know mostly online, I’d like to thank Abdullah, Imran, Haris, Saad and specially Ramla. Obviously I’d also like to thank my relatives for their concerns..

I know I cannot thank you folks enough, but thanks for being here for me, always.

I m hoping to get back on the groove and start annoying everyone again.

Love.

Tags: bell's palsy, dysfuntion, ear, friends, problem, stuck, support, wikipedia

The tragic incident of Mumbai, India dropped me into a shock. The next moment of the incident, Indian bureaucrats and media started pointing the ‘confident’ finger at Pakistan. This reminded me of ‘Samjhota Express’ tragedy.

Within couple of hours of Samjhota Express bombings, Indian authorities were pointing fingers at Pakistan. Turned out, the gruesome massacre was the handy work of the Hindu extremists, like Col Purohit. There are countless other, serving or retired Indian military officials, like Lt Col Jayant Rao Chitale and Lt Gen P N Hoon who also train and form the Hindu Suicide Squads. Surprise, surprise! It turns out, besides Muslims; Hindus too can be quite proficient at bombings.

It it possbile to believe Indian Media’s irrational propaganda that Pakistan is involved in Mumbai’s incident?

Let’s look at some blames from India:

1. According to Indian forces, the terrorists reached India through boats. At the time when terrorists entered Indian coast, Indian Navy along with Coast Guards was practicing a defense exercise at the coast. The defense exercise was about safeguarding the coast from external elements or ‘Al-Qaeda’. Now let’s come to the fact that how come its possible ‘The great Blue Waters’ Indian Navy and Coast Guards (who keep hunting the fishermen) could not protect the coast? A group of terrorists in ordinary boats with heavy ammunition and weapons enter through coast, is it possible, rationally?
2. It is said by Indian forces that the terrorists never came to Mumbai before; they planned everything through ‘Google Earth’. Maybe the forces who have made this statement don’t know that Google Earth can show only satellite view of a location. How come the terrorists know all the interior locations of hotels? And then they had taxies to different areas and without wasting time they did it. Interesting?
3. If they have come from Pakistan through waters with heavy ammunitions, and they have even crossed the coast, how could they bring such heavy arms inside the hotel where even a lighter is being detected through scanner
4. According to Indian media, they have found a cell phone of a terrorist with Pakistani contact numbers and Pakistani Identity Card of a terrorist too. Wow!!! They have come for a terrorist attempt with all the evidences. They dropped a Pakistani ID card, a phone and other clear evidences…hats off to the media.
5. Indian Govt. has blamed ISI for the incident. ISI is considered a very strong agency globally and India admits that. How come such an organized agency commits a childish act that makes all loss no gain? This kind of attempt can never gain for anyone, but loss. They only occupied some places for sometimes and got killed.

Then who the terrorists were if not Pakistanis?

Indian media’s spectacular eye has ignored clear evidence, unintentionally and intentionally. Have a look at the picture attached, picture of one of the terrorists involved in this attempt. NOTICE THE RED THREAD ON HIS RIGHT HAND. Tying a red thread or cord around the wrist is a Hindu practice and it is unlikely a Muslim, especially one politicized enough to carry out an attack such as this, would observe it. I think this provides more evidence that this was a false flag operation or at least an attack by a non-Muslim group.
Additionally, the terrorists inside the Nariman House Building were reported to have stocked up on supplies on Wednesday evening, buying not just food items but liquor, among other things, from a local store (Source: http://www.shturem.org/index.php?section=news&id=31585) . Again, it is highly unlikely that a Muslim, let alone a ‘Mujahid’, and especially one politicized enough to carry out such an attack, would consume liquor in normal life, let alone hours before his inevitable ‘martyrdom’.

The ENEMY is nowhere but from your own country (100 groups in a war against India):

Mumbai’s night of terror underscores a phenomenon concealed by the Indian government and intelligence agencies and deliberately ignored by a biased Anglo-American media for a long time: The rise of a virulent form of Hindu terrorism that begets violence from other minorities. Here is a list of almost one hundred groups that are fighting the Indian government. All of them thrive in India. The context for what has happened in Mumbai is stunning only for those unaware how a cocktail mix of wrong policies, official patronage to extremism, and separatist movements have come together to destabilize India.
Here is the list: http://groups.google.com.pk/group/paknationalists/web/100-groups-in-a-war-against-india

Neatly tucked under the well constructed – and expensive – veneer of ‘Incredible India’ advertisements on international television channels is the hottest Indian story: The fast rise of Indian religious terrorist organizations that have penetrated India’s military and politics. The movement is so strong, resourceful and organized that it warrants the label India’s Hindu al-Qaeda.
The arrest last week of a serving Indian army colonel who along with some other officers has allegedly transferred military funds, material and training to terrorist groups is a matter that should not escape the attention of India’s neighbors, since it is directly linked to New Delhi’s new desire for expanding its reach beyond its borders and to serve as the regional policeman for American interests in the Asia-Pacific.

And yes, there is no group in India as Daccan Mujahideen.

What are the possible reasons to blame Pakistan?

1. To avoid internal disorganization and ethnical riots.
2. The Indian Intelligence have diverted the global attention towards another issue where they would blame Pakistan for this slaughter and use Barack Obama’s doctrine of attacks on Pakistan to encircle Pakistan from both sides.
3. To grab world attention by a local 9/11.
4. For the past many weeks, the biggest story in India was involvement of Indian Military Intelligence officers in orchestrated acts of terrorism against Muslims to create a Hindu-Muslim riot situation as well as to create a justification for war against Pakistan. Many Indian army officers were caught and Indian Police was forced to work deeper into finding more BJP, Bajrang Dal and RSS terrorists in Indian military and Intelligence setup. This story had created a serious panic in Indian military and their Fascist patrons in Hindu Zionists. Something had to be done to divert the attention of the world and Indian public from acts of terrorism by Hindu Hardliners. …..Then comes the Mumbai Massacre.

Clear?

All the facts above prove the involvement of Pakistan wrong. On the other hand, the Indian Govt. has not managed yet to provide tangible proofs.

On a friendly note, I request my Indian friends an open-eyes research and not to believe everything that media says. Pakistan is always with India to fight against terrorism.
Terrorism is a global issue and Pakistan-India are suffering it. India should deal with her internal terrorism menaces as Pakistan is doing so.

Credit: Jibran T. Siddiqui, who further credits : Zaid Hamid, Ahmad Qureshi, Kamran Khan.

This can be read and commented on facebook here.

Tags: attack, boom blast, bullshit, dead, died, hindu, india, mumbai, muslim, Pakistan, pakistani, people, shit, terrorist

Hello folks. How you all been doing.. I know no ones gonna answer that in the comments but anyhow.. This last week end didn’t go so well for me, for a couple of reasons. Some of them are what I will not write about here, but the rest.. oh well, read on.

I was already have some diaherrea problems, and since I m on night shifts for my job , I cam home in the morning on Friday, my office is  like an hour and a half away from my home, so when I was home, I had to ruch to the toilet, picture this a dark toilet and no electricity, so obviously I had to lit the candle (bad idea), which was super small already (being the lazy ass I didn’t get a bigger one ), so any how I did what I had to do in the toilet, spent like 15-20 minutes, and then came out, there still was no electricity and I wasn’t sleepy and I had to go for Friday prayers too, so I just popped up my ipod and watched movies, like 10 minutes later, I could smell plastic burning.. Holy F***, I ran upstairs and open the toilet door only to find black smoke, yes the tanka nd comode had been gone, not really the comode but the seating the tissues, and the rest of the stuff near the sitting place Yes ! Oh crap, what a way to start the week end. I had to put it out and stuff, I was all black and my room and the whole of upstairs was a mess in no time.. Took me a while to put out the fire and restroe oxygen :S

Anyhow, after that, the Friday prayers and sleep. Next day I had to head for Asim’s place for some stuff, and boy I almost had a fight with his bro’s friend, on some work issues, mofo wants work, and won’t pay, thats the crappy part, I did the work and got paid super less. Never am I going to work for him any more. Yes I ended a business relationship, a rather bitter one. He doesn’t really get the design business, and no barely anything about the design industry of the use of a creative mind.

And I still had diaherrea throughout the week end. crap crap crap. Monday was better.

Found this image to be awesome.

[Image from : Pink sheep / Twitter nonsense]

Tags: burn, crap, crash, destroyed, diaherrea, shit, toilet, week end

It’s actually been like a week since I dropped in Dubai, but I didn’t get the time to write something, I know that may some of you off, but apology is all I can offer right now !

Any how, I flew here to assist a company “Illusio” in their design department, and it’s been a good ride so far.

I didn’t get to meet all my relatives in this time period, even though I met some of them, today again, I’ll be out visitng some of my relatives, because while I m living here, I might need their attention and they might need mine, so it’s good to keep up with them.

As for me being here, right now it’s going to be a short term, ut probably stretch to full scale soon.

Then this company Illusio, has finally given me a mac to work with, my last work space had all PC’s this is one of the things that I actually like about this place. And again the people are fun to be with, even the head guy is awesome as in he’s a full time funkie guy with the employees.

Since it’s Dubai and you’ll see alot of people around that belong to different parts of the world, it’s interesting to know some of them, and again some of is not so good, but overall it’s been a good experience.

Then my family back in Karachi has been missing me alot, much more than I m missing them, I know they love me more than I do, it’s kind of obvious ! My parents gave birth to me, and most creators love their creation. Mom and dad I love you.. and you my little sis ! One of my coolest friend is also probably missing me in Pakistan, yah it’s the one and only cool guy: Asim. miss you too man. oh and his bro’s here too. There’s two more important people I m missing.. M lady and uzey. Love both of you too… M lady, Love you alot !

Oh I just forgot, I m with babrus, one of the coolest folks I know, he’s a little down lately, I know some of the reasons, but I m not going to share them. also his uncle passed away yesterday, a moment of silence and prayers for him please.

That’s about what’s in my head right now. Love you all !

Tags: babrus, dad, death, dubai, family, freelance, friends, illusio, live, love, mac, mom, sister, uncle

Yo !

We all know how the music scene in Pakistan is kind of growing in Pakistan, and we’re looking at lots of rock bands popping up from every corner of the street, and then we come across a complete BS ! no seriously !

Check this music video by Maha, the song is uljhan. A complete rip off of Evanescence’s ‘Everbody’s a fool’. I guess she think people in Pakistan just don’t know music… well girl… F..OFF !

How sad is that ? I saw this video sometime back ,but didn’t know who sang it.

On the other hand.. I m getting alot of work.. I might also be flying to Dubai soon, Inshallah !

There’s not much to tell otherwise.

Tags: bullshit, maha, uljhan, work

18th August’08 will go down in history as the not so normal day..

President Pervaiz Musharraf, stepped down as a president, while resigning from the office of the president and leaving the President house… People you need to wake up.. we’ve been seeing a lot of hush hush to get the country into democracy… well hello.. are you waiting for another disaster? With a population that accounts less for 30% educated people, half of them who only know how to just write their names, democracy in Pakistan right now is just a disaster waiting to happen !

I as a citizen saw many ups and downs in the country since Musharraf came into power, and with all honesty I think he has been among the best President we have had, with my complete no-trust vote for PPP, or Muslim League, or any other political party. What he had done and achieved, will forever be remembered, and some may want to forget, yet still use and utilize what he has given this country.. Ever heard the term “Think what you can do for your country, not what the country can do for you – JF Kenedy”, P. Musharraf was a great example for that phrase.

We’re standing at a point where the coalition leaders want to decide who’ll be the next president, either to later kick him/her out, or to eat up the remaining economy of Pakistan, many might argue that prices saw inflation during his regime, well I would disagree.. The inflation in prices came with the New PPP/Nawaz Shariff government, before that things were pretty much stable, the price of dollar, oil, flour, and countless other things was a lot in control, and as soon as this new government popped up, prices ran an all time high.. I mean come on, can’t you se… ?

Any how, I m not really a political activist, neither want to be one, I just want this country to be stable and livable, not bearable… I want this country to be a dream come true of Quaid-e-Azam.. I want this country to be a country and not a political zoo…

Much love, faith and regards.. Pakistan.. Pakistan Zindabad.

Tags: Asif Zardari, conditions, down, Musharraf, Nawaz, Pervaiz, political, ppp, president, Shariff, step